to write articles about them. Please, pay particular attention to this and help us with comprehensive literary assistance. Also point out interesting new publications and send materials from socialist newspapers and journals for translation in the newspaper, for compiling excerpts, etc. After all, you probably follow almost all the French (and Belgian?) socialist press?

Keep in mind that we are thus counting on you most seriously.

By all means come here for Christmas. It would be extremely important to talk things over—freely, thoroughly, concretely.

Have you not written to Plekhanov about the "zemstvo" views of the new *Iskra*? How foolish their letter is, isn't it[310]? And Starover in No. 78, that is splendid.

Your N. Lenin

By the way. Could you not send me material for refuting Starover's reference to Clemenceau. After all, the reference is inaccurate[311]. Please send it, procure it. It would be very instructive to refute it on factual grounds.

Sent from Geneva

First published April 21, 1963 in the newspaper "Moskovskaya Pravda" No. 95

Published according to the manuscript